Download The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial by Patricia Herlihy PDF

March 25, 2017 | Recovery

By Patricia Herlihy

The Alcoholic Empire examines the superiority of alcohol in Russian social, monetary, spiritual, and political existence. Herlihy seems at how the country, the church, the army, medical professionals, lay societies, and the czar all attempted to conflict the matter of overconsumption of alcohol within the overdue imperial interval. because vodka produced crucial govt profit and was once a spine of the nation economic system, many that fought for a sober Russia believed that the one strategy to store the rustic via innovative switch. This booklet lines temperance job and politics facet through facet with the top of the tsarist regime, whereas displaying how the matter of alcohoism endured to pervade Soviet and post-Soviet society. Illustrated by way of undying and incisive sayings in regards to the Russian love of vodka and through poster paintings and work, this ebook will entice Russian and ecu historians and people attracted to temperance history.

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